Cloud computing

Definition LavisTech · · 1 min read

Quick answer

Cloud is someone else’s data centre, with APIs to create machines, databases and backups. Done well, you gain reliability and a way to grow without buying hardware. Done badly, you recreate the old server on a virtual machine and call it a migration. Real cloud work is also identity, backup, and a way to leave.

Moving an application is legacy and cloud modernisation, not a hosting invoice. The application design still has to be sound; the cloud will not fix a database that cannot take a backup.

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